Sean Cranbury
@seancranbury.bsky.social
writer, bookseller, recovering dj, restless misanthrope.
The Commodore PET — Its technology is so advance; its concept, so remarkable; its ease of operation, so utterly simple, and its cost so incredibly low, that over-night it has given rise to a brand new era — The Age of the Personal Computer.
My AI Origin Story: Part One - The PET
A gnome illusionist made of ASCII is cooler than you think
seancranbury.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The Commodore PET — Its technology is so advance; its concept, so remarkable; its ease of operation, so utterly simple, and its cost so incredibly low, that over-night it has given rise to a brand new era — The Age of the Personal Computer.
I know that you know that Ocean Vuong has a new book out.
I've seen your #bookstagram feed.
And I know that you just took a pristine copy of the Outline Trilogy to the beach.
Hope that it's full of sand now.
I've seen your #bookstagram feed.
And I know that you just took a pristine copy of the Outline Trilogy to the beach.
Hope that it's full of sand now.
Performative Reading: Let's Do This
I need to know what books are going around, it's important
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July 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I know that you know that Ocean Vuong has a new book out.
I've seen your #bookstagram feed.
And I know that you just took a pristine copy of the Outline Trilogy to the beach.
Hope that it's full of sand now.
I've seen your #bookstagram feed.
And I know that you just took a pristine copy of the Outline Trilogy to the beach.
Hope that it's full of sand now.
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
anybody else feeling like we're living through the prequel to Ozymandias right now?
March 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
anybody else feeling like we're living through the prequel to Ozymandias right now?
New novel idea
#2000s #kylieminogue @Louiss.buzz.off
TikTok video by Linda Buzz Official
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March 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
New novel idea
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If you need a dose of hope, listen to Signal’s @meredithmeredith.bsky.social who speaks with such clarity about safety, with passion about privacy, and with great candour about the world / web we want
The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE
YouTube video by SXSW
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March 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you need a dose of hope, listen to Signal’s @meredithmeredith.bsky.social who speaks with such clarity about safety, with passion about privacy, and with great candour about the world / web we want
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So I’m getting started reading Values by Mark Carney and I want to share some shots of how this book starts because it makes me blink in surprise.
If you haven’t read it, I think you might want to, because this is what Canada’s new prime minister was thinking about five years ago.
If you haven’t read it, I think you might want to, because this is what Canada’s new prime minister was thinking about five years ago.
March 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So I’m getting started reading Values by Mark Carney and I want to share some shots of how this book starts because it makes me blink in surprise.
If you haven’t read it, I think you might want to, because this is what Canada’s new prime minister was thinking about five years ago.
If you haven’t read it, I think you might want to, because this is what Canada’s new prime minister was thinking about five years ago.
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less than five hundred years ago even the most powerful monarch was at the mercy of childhood disease and weather. now we can do literal concrete things about both and are in fact actively choosing to die of childhood disease and weather
March 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
less than five hundred years ago even the most powerful monarch was at the mercy of childhood disease and weather. now we can do literal concrete things about both and are in fact actively choosing to die of childhood disease and weather
Jon really wants you to know that he's always been super-into liberal values.
“Times have changed” not “I was worried about the wrong thing”.
March 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Jon really wants you to know that he's always been super-into liberal values.
Canada’s brunch industry recoils at the thought.
March 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Canada’s brunch industry recoils at the thought.
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The game involves each player finding ways to prove how decolonized they are—and perhaps most importantly, how colonized their opponent is—and then announcing it on social media so as many people as possible can read it.
Online game of ‘I’m less colonized than you’ between friends enters eighth year
A game of 'I'm less colonized than you' between two friends from different First Nations communities has entered its eighth year. The game involves each player finding ways to prove how decolonized they are—and perhaps most
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March 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The game involves each player finding ways to prove how decolonized they are—and perhaps most importantly, how colonized their opponent is—and then announcing it on social media so as many people as possible can read it.
The bunny likes the sound of soft flutes and piano and it got me thinking about what records I have that feature the flute. Sadly the bunny is not really into Eric Dolphy or Jethro Tull.
March 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The bunny likes the sound of soft flutes and piano and it got me thinking about what records I have that feature the flute. Sadly the bunny is not really into Eric Dolphy or Jethro Tull.
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Just came here to say that they're re-releasing The Sacrificial Code and there's a new recording, too.
Sacrificial Code III was recorded on the St Petris organ tuned in meantone temperament at Malmö Konstmuseum, March 2023.
cc: @raoulfernandes.bsky.social
Sacrificial Code III was recorded on the St Petris organ tuned in meantone temperament at Malmö Konstmuseum, March 2023.
cc: @raoulfernandes.bsky.social
The Sacrificial Code (2025 edition), by KALI MALONE
9 track album
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February 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just came here to say that they're re-releasing The Sacrificial Code and there's a new recording, too.
Sacrificial Code III was recorded on the St Petris organ tuned in meantone temperament at Malmö Konstmuseum, March 2023.
cc: @raoulfernandes.bsky.social
Sacrificial Code III was recorded on the St Petris organ tuned in meantone temperament at Malmö Konstmuseum, March 2023.
cc: @raoulfernandes.bsky.social
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Felt Rorschach lens switching in and out all the time reading this, blink and it feels like reading something from a lost world, blink again and it's the same old story as it ever was
lareviewofbooks.org/article/sell...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/sell...
Selling Out the Newspaper Comic Strip | Los Angeles Review of Books
The comic strip and its evolution and devolution.
lareviewofbooks.org
February 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Felt Rorschach lens switching in and out all the time reading this, blink and it feels like reading something from a lost world, blink again and it's the same old story as it ever was
lareviewofbooks.org/article/sell...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/sell...
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I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.
February 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.
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A great evening of readings and conversation with Robin Pacific, Kate Cayley and Nicola Winstanley.
Thanks to everyone who joined us tonight.
Thanks to everyone who joined us tonight.
January 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
A great evening of readings and conversation with Robin Pacific, Kate Cayley and Nicola Winstanley.
Thanks to everyone who joined us tonight.
Thanks to everyone who joined us tonight.
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My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
January 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.
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Erica is utterly brilliant and this is a gift worth opening.
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
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January 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Erica is utterly brilliant and this is a gift worth opening.
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Every woman on the planet has sat across a table from a guy with this expression.
An office meeting, a government office, a loans officer, a cop, a prof, a doctor, a teacher, a spouse, a father.
A mediocre man enjoying a modicum of power.
Let’s make sure we vote like we remember that feeling.
An office meeting, a government office, a loans officer, a cop, a prof, a doctor, a teacher, a spouse, a father.
A mediocre man enjoying a modicum of power.
Let’s make sure we vote like we remember that feeling.
January 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Every woman on the planet has sat across a table from a guy with this expression.
An office meeting, a government office, a loans officer, a cop, a prof, a doctor, a teacher, a spouse, a father.
A mediocre man enjoying a modicum of power.
Let’s make sure we vote like we remember that feeling.
An office meeting, a government office, a loans officer, a cop, a prof, a doctor, a teacher, a spouse, a father.
A mediocre man enjoying a modicum of power.
Let’s make sure we vote like we remember that feeling.
Bluesky feed looks just like Twitter feed.
January 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Bluesky feed looks just like Twitter feed.
When they said “may you live in interesting times” they could not have meant “may you live to see a Cybertruck explode outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas.”
January 3, 2025 at 6:26 AM
When they said “may you live in interesting times” they could not have meant “may you live to see a Cybertruck explode outside the Trump Hotel in Vegas.”
Fragile by Yes is a criminally flawed record and should really just be a three song EP.
Side 1: Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround.
Side 2: Heart of the Sunrise.
Side 1: Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround.
Side 2: Heart of the Sunrise.
Heart of the Sunrise by Yes in 1080p HD
YouTube video by vzqk50HD
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December 15, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Fragile by Yes is a criminally flawed record and should really just be a three song EP.
Side 1: Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround.
Side 2: Heart of the Sunrise.
Side 1: Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround.
Side 2: Heart of the Sunrise.
New Zacht Automaat! Their best so far.
Do yourself a favour.
zachtautomaat.bandcamp.com/album/be-hap...
Do yourself a favour.
zachtautomaat.bandcamp.com/album/be-hap...
Be Happy In Your Workshop, by ZACHT AUTOMAAT
12 track album
zachtautomaat.bandcamp.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:14 AM
New Zacht Automaat! Their best so far.
Do yourself a favour.
zachtautomaat.bandcamp.com/album/be-hap...
Do yourself a favour.
zachtautomaat.bandcamp.com/album/be-hap...
Just to be perfectly clear - if you’re an organization whose mission I am clearly down with and you have no human presence in your bio or actions then I’m just going to assume that you’re a plant with some trash infiltration strategy and so… block. GFY.
December 14, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Just to be perfectly clear - if you’re an organization whose mission I am clearly down with and you have no human presence in your bio or actions then I’m just going to assume that you’re a plant with some trash infiltration strategy and so… block. GFY.